This device looks like it'd work really well for people who have difficulty grasping regular bottle openers. I have a dear friend who deals with occasional arthritis pain in her hands, and this would greatly improve her quality of beer-and-barbecue life.

The fact that it's magnetic so it will stick to the 'fridge is a nice touch, but I used to just attach a church key to a string and tie it to the handle of the 'fridge. Never lost that opener - until I moved.

After several decades of drinking beer, I have enough openers to supply a small army of drunks. If I misplace one, I'll probably trip over another soon enough - or there's always a lighter handy.

Baron Krelve:I never understood the need for bottle openers, other than for people with arthritis.

Just learn how to open a beer with another beer. Get good at it. When you get to your last beer, almost anything in your kitchen drawer will work, if leveraged correctly.

well if you are comparing drinking beer, with chain smoking.. .I can get behind that.. one should always be able to get into a bottle of beer, or a can of food. Leverage is usually the motivaitive force...

However, I will counter that your ability to utilize found objects to open a bottle of beer runs parallel to the persons who invent various objects to get into those bottles. . You invent, they invent... got it?

but here is the thing... these objects are patentable, and marketable. from day one when man kind figured out a way to put beer into a container, they figured out a way to distinguish one particular maker of beer from another on that container, and, in the numerous kinds of containers, and their closures, they made sure to provide the end customer a way to get through that closure, and to make sure you don't forget, they put their name on that tool.

at the end of the day, yes, we can all turn a skull into a bong if need be... that's not the point.. the point is to create a nifty thing that you can turn into a piecec of marketing material... this guy is not going to make a fortune selling these things individually, you make that fortune, by selling thousands at a time imprinted with whatever brand or logo that somebody wants to stick on it.